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Import your Google Calendar to iCal
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Monday May 11, 2009
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Monday May 11, 2009
If you use Google Calendar on your Mac you may have wondered if you could get your entries into iCal. Well, the answer is yes. With a handy, little application from Google you can do it in just minutes. Here's how.
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- Go here to get the Google Calaboration Application
- Download the ZIP file and unpack it.
- Run the Calaboration application on your Mac.
- When you do a dialog will come up and you'll need to sign in to your Google Calendar account.
- Enter your user name and password and click Sign In.
- The dialog will display a list of available calendars.
- Check the ones you want to bring into iCal and click Add to iCal.
- If you have iCal running a dialog will come up and tell you to close it.
- Close iCal and click Continue.
- If you don't have an address book card in iCal a dialog will come up telling you you have no "Me" card. For now, click Continue.
- You're prompted to Add this email address to your Address Book so click Add Email.
- Setup is complete so click Open iCal.
- iCal will start to pull in all the information from your Google Calendars.
- Click iCal then Preferences, then click on Accounts.
- In the Refresh Calendars dialogue you can elect to have the calendars refresh anywhere from every 5 minutes to every 30 minutes, or you can decide to do it manually. We recommend using one of the automatic update options however.
- Download the ZIP file and unpack it.
- Run the Calaboration application on your Mac.
- When you do a dialog will come up and you'll need to sign in to your Google Calendar account.
- Enter your user name and password and click Sign In.
- The dialog will display a list of available calendars.
- Check the ones you want to bring into iCal and click Add to iCal.
- If you have iCal running a dialog will come up and tell you to close it.
- Close iCal and click Continue.
- If you don't have an address book card in iCal a dialog will come up telling you you have no "Me" card. For now, click Continue.
- You're prompted to Add this email address to your Address Book so click Add Email.
- Setup is complete so click Open iCal.
- iCal will start to pull in all the information from your Google Calendars.
- Click iCal then Preferences, then click on Accounts.
- In the Refresh Calendars dialogue you can elect to have the calendars refresh anywhere from every 5 minutes to every 30 minutes, or you can decide to do it manually. We recommend using one of the automatic update options however.
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